Denial of Service Vulnerability in Prosody before 0.10.0

CVE-2017-18265 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Prosody before 0.10.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash), related to an incompatibility with certain versions of the LuaSocket library, such as the lua-socket package from Debian stretch. The attacker needs to trigger a stream error. A crash can be observed in, for example, the c2s module.

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